Reposted by down in Florida somewhereSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Precisely. 492344560
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Everything is at the tipping point, but never tips: books.google.com/ngrams/graph...books.google.comGoogle Books Ngram ViewerGoogle Ngrams: tipping point, 1800-2022 000
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereBearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When I check the news, I find lots of things. But I'm only ever looking for one thing. 192
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Albert Camus, ‘The Fall’ (1956)... 0186
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida 68993692185
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17572471994
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fye on’t! oh, fye! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. ~ Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ (1623) Poster #illustration by J&W Beggarstaff, 1894 051
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like many fanatics, he wants the apocalypse so he and his friends can inherit the earth. Unlike most fanatics, he and his friends have the power to bring it about. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No, identifiable humans are responsible, not a machine, and those people should be criminally charged. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government WebsitesThe company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 000
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Nature is still there, nevertheless. Her calm skies and her reason oppose the folly of men. Until the atom bursts into flame, and history ends in the triumph of reason and the death agony of the species.” ~ Albert Camus, ‘Helen’s Exile’ (1942) #Photography, Café Les Deux Magots, Paris, 1945. 093
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026‘Hanoi.’ #Photography (1967). From ‘Hanoi - Am Tage vor dem Frieden’ by Thomas Billhardt, 1973. #Vietnam 1205
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They want to trans your kids into furries. Send money now. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It all goes back to money in politics, which is amoral and tends toward the right. Elections don't solve the problem. If there were 100 Democratic senators, 51 would suddenly become Joe Manchin. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ok, I’m going from admirer to fan 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Healthcare tax credits and ICE body cams are much more important 000
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Maxims and Reflections’ (1833) #Painting, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Andy Warhol, 1982. 071
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 22/09/20261. Take a random hippie you smoked weed with in 1976. 2. Marinate in Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for 50 years. 3. Don't even look. 010
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Pissed is such an idiot word. Could mean anything from mildly annoyed to enraged. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just as there are no redeeming qualities in millions of Americans. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Old age is a tyrant. Don't obey in advance. 001
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As we get thrust into an unnecessary period of fascistic violence, war over resources, and the stripping of basic human services and dignity, the appeal of AI for the powerful isn’t just planning or war making, it’s creating a system that will do what they want and allow them to shirk all blame. 9385124
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That antimatter didn’t annihilate matter at the big bang was a surprise 2142
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‘Introduction To Perspective: That Is Of The Function Of The Eye, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)... #Painting (detail) by Leonardo da Vinci. 042
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s cults all the way down. Read the whole thread. 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NYT: “The big joke on democracy,” the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in May 1928, “is that it provides its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.” This is why Dems can't go back to business as usual. 000
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a... 231182429
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Hey, 3 legit followers, let's get these YT numbers way, way up: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...youtu.beJimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To SeeYouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live 022
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...youtube.com216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV ProblemYouTube video by Gamers Nexus 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Good book by Will Bunch on this phenomenon: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...kobo.comAfter the Ivory Tower Falls ebook by Will Bunch - Rakuten KoboRead "After the Ivory Tower Falls How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It" by Will Bunch available from Rakuten Kobo. From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wil... 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Another good thread. The religion is ancient, as when "property rights" were extended to human ownership prior to 1865. That's always the goal. 0152
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934) 010
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Bots have really upped their game lately… 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026AI does content-free text very well 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Made the mistake of following all in a starter pack. Now my feed has multiple posts that end in "what are we doing here." 000
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Repubs: Everyone's life should be as fucked up as my own 000
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026George Grosz, Pillars of Society. 1926. 100 years ago. 816848
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereRep. Geoff Smith @missinglynxnh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Kafka himself would find this too absurd. 54330
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereJustin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’ve heard of this, heard clips, but only just heard the whole thing. A masterpiece of clarity, even more horrifying for its restraint & suppressed rage, only broadcast because Dimbleby threatened to quit. 11 min audio. www.bbc.com/videos/c87z7...bbc.comBBC Archive 1945: Richard Dimbleby describes BelsenRichard Dimbleby describes the scenes of almost unimaginable horror that greeted him as he toured Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by the British in April 1945. 12410
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Some people are like glass: useful, mundane, and almost invisible when whole. But if broken, very very dangerous.” ~ Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) Cracked glass #sculpture by Simon Berger. 0133
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Men follow only those who give them illusions. There have never been gatherings around a disillusioned.” ~ Emil Cioran (1911-1995) #Painting, Aaron Westerberg, ‘Distant Thoughts.’ 0122
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~ Lao Tzu (5th century BC) #Photography, Bruno Aveillan. 0252
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026#Photography via La Hija del Molinero. 0202
Reposted by down in Florida somewhereCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach 400134913160
down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Time to re-read this: www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3...gutenberg.org Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, by Mark Twain 010